@John_Galt:
Yep, people are creating a false dilemma where the choices are basically public school on the Southside of Chicago or private school in the Hamptons. There are dozens of other options that don't include preschool drug dealers or $15k tuitions.
And in fact, most of these expensive schools in big cities are nothing but centers for degeneracy, as you alluded to. The "elite" colleges are a major source of half of the bullshit we complain about on the forum.
To be clear, there's definitely a huge problem in the American education system, economy, and culture.
But someone making six plus figures a year in the US still has a better quality of life than basically everyone else in human history. To argue that sacrificing even a sliver of that lifestyle is somehow neglecting your children is just not reasonable.
"Oh, well I'd have to move to an expensive neighborhood and have an expensive mortgage to find good schools" -- sounds like you're stuck on the treadmill. Why do you want your children to be on the same treadmill?
Yep, people are creating a false dilemma where the choices are basically public school on the Southside of Chicago or private school in the Hamptons. There are dozens of other options that don't include preschool drug dealers or $15k tuitions.
And in fact, most of these expensive schools in big cities are nothing but centers for degeneracy, as you alluded to. The "elite" colleges are a major source of half of the bullshit we complain about on the forum.
To be clear, there's definitely a huge problem in the American education system, economy, and culture.
But someone making six plus figures a year in the US still has a better quality of life than basically everyone else in human history. To argue that sacrificing even a sliver of that lifestyle is somehow neglecting your children is just not reasonable.
"Oh, well I'd have to move to an expensive neighborhood and have an expensive mortgage to find good schools" -- sounds like you're stuck on the treadmill. Why do you want your children to be on the same treadmill?